Nobody Wants the Night

2015

1h 58m

Drama

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8%

12 Reviews

Tomatometer

36%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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Josephine Peary (Juliette Binoche) travels to the hostile North to find her lost husband, Commander Peary. She finds companionship with an Inuit woman (Rinko Kikuchi), who may have ulterior motives.

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Boyd van Hoeij

Hollywood Reporter

There are too few instances where all of the film's different elements come together to deliver any kind of visceral charge.

Aug 26, 2016

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Guy Lodge

Variety

Though it hardly wants for sincerity or ambition, Coixet's portrait of an arduous mid-career expedition by American explorer Josephine Peary is dramatically as pallid and lifeless as the frozen tundra on which it takes place.

Aug 26, 2016

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

The first half is all about getting into this position, where two women have to depend on each other. The second half is where the drama lives... but by then it's too late. Coixet has blown our goodwill.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 26, 2016

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Mark Adams

Screen International

While blessed with an impressive double act in the form of Juliette Binoche and Rinko Kikuchi it never quite settles on enough intensity to carry its almost two hour running time.

Aug 26, 2016

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Stefan Pape

HeyUGuys

Though evidently the point - to provoke a sense of disquiet and claustrophobia from the viewer to make for an immersive experience, conversely, it doesn't quite make for a very entertaining one, which has to count for something.

Aug 26, 2016

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Giovanni Marchini Camia

The Film Stage

Even more grinding than the plot's predictability, however, is the film's depiction of the Inuit people.

Rated: C-

Aug 26, 2016

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With an impressive cinematography that explores the isolation and vast whiteness of the Arctic, this is an engaging story centered on a cultural clash experienced by two very different characters who are forced to endure a terrifying glacial nightmare together.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Isabel Coixet

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Juliette Binoche

Josephine Peary

Gabriel Byrne

Bram Trevor

Rinko Kikuchi

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Matthew Salinger

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Synopsis

Josephine Peary (Juliette Binoche) travels to the hostile North to find her lost husband, Commander Peary. She finds companionship with an Inuit woman (Rinko Kikuchi), who may have ulterior motives.

Director: Isabel Coixet
Producer: Andrés Santana
Screenwriter: Miguel Barros
Production Co: Ariane & Garoé, Eurimages, Noodles Production, Audiovisual Aval SGR
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 58m